that donald trump represents. marco rubio has the job of defending donald trump. >> yeah, grab the popcorn. i would say you know even if you are not a democrat, a republican who believes in democracy, marco rubio seems afraid of everything. val demings seems to be afraid of nothing. there is a real contrast in terms of strength and kyle clark character. obama won it in 2012. trump opens up a few points in 2020. you have to look at the senate picture in totality. the democratic party in my view, this is not just maintaining control in 2022 as important as it is. the 2024 cycle in the senate is brutal for the democrats. you got joe manchin and we are not playing that much offense, maybe now to campaign against cruz being a presidential year or maybe rick scott. you have to maximize in wisconsin and you have to protect warnock and kelly. you have to have some states like florida. this time there were few people in politics. they ended up determining the president of the senate control. florida is really important. i

and you'd find it at the trump org. >> find it at the trump org. attorney michael cohen laying out a road

he bowed to donald trump. so he adores donald trump. and that trump knows and has relied on as this trusted and probably the only trusted party left other than family. but you put allen weisselberg and like you said everyone has a heart. i would question about that when it comes to donald, and i mean that. but weisselberg will not -- he will not go to jail, and he will not let his children be thrown under the bus, so to speak. because there is no pardon coming down the road. the only thing that trump has to offer right now is money, and i don't know that money would pay off jail time. >> final question. if donald trump did something over the line in these recent years within the statute of limitations, do you think he left enough fingerprints for these investigators? >> trump has a way of getting people to do things he wants them to do without saying, do this. and cohen talked about that, too. that is the way we all lived there. it is not like i'd like to see this. what would it be like if this happened? maybe this should happen but not

one, each knows donald trump and the trump children very well. number two, each of them is cooperating with prosecutors against donald trump. and the convening of a grand jury is very significant because it's a really unique investigative tool. it is not something you start unless you have serious evidence as a prosecutor. and andrew is exactly right. this panel is going to work three days a week. that has to make donald trump nervous. they're working a lot more longer hours than he ever did. and all is focussed on him. and the grand jury is a secret thing. so when people go in, like, you know, perhaps the people you had on your show yesterday, they don't go in with their lawyers. they go in by themselves. that's for an iortant reason because, you know, maybe their lawyers are paid for by the figure head of the criminal enterprise or something like that and telling them what to say. when that witness goes in, she or he tells her truth only to these people on the grand jury and the prosecutor. it is a powerful tooth for getting at the truth, and t

he handles and still handles donald trump's personal taxes as well as the trump organizations corporate filings. there are two people inside the trump organization that had to rubberstamp before donald trump was comfortable for it getting out of the door. his name hasn't come out of the news, i'm not in that jason greenblatt has done anything necessarily, but he was trump special envoy to israel during trump's presidency. those two men were the gatekeepers around everything of financial substance in that company. this is not a big complex organization, the trump organization is a mom and pop shop and allen weisselberg has been manning the cash register for them for decades. i think the fact that he is now being clearly targeted in a criminal investigation is potentially sizeable because these investigations always perceived by squeezing people at the bottom to get them to flip at people at the top. there are not a lot of levels between allen weisselberg and donald trump. allen weisselberg and trump's children. i would imagine, all of them are thinking now about lowering up independently

to make trump feel better? we know biden is not going to leave the white house while he's legally certified to be in that role. what's the goal here? >> right. >> the goal here is undermine the institution, undermine the people and no voter in this country deserves to be undermined in this way. >> as you said, it's not an audit down tlxt you can call it a confidence audit, which is what the mafia and cartels do, where they use the word audit to try to take something that's not theirs. but, no, it's not a real audit. it's very seriously a problem. i want to play a little bit of george will, who has been a very strong conservative, very much right winger, he would say himself for a long time. here's what he said about where this party is headed. >> we have something new in american history that was i political party by the terror it feels from its own voters. every elected officials is frightand of their voters and doesn't respect or like their voters and afraid a vote for this will be seen as an insult to the 45

and donald trump knew was coming. a trump advisor tool political today, there's definitely a cloud of nerves in the air because of the grand jury investigation in new york city where prosecutors have obtained and are studying donald trump's tax returns, for evidence of possible bank fraud, tax fraud, insurance fraud. the washington post reports quote, the district attorney also is examining the compensation provided to top trump organization executives, people familiar with the matter have said. prosecutors reportedly are hoping that added pressure on donald trump's longtime accountant the so-called chief financial officer of trump world, allen weisselberg, whose own taxes are under criminal investigation of, will convince weisselberg to cooperate with investigators. as he has actually done before in a trump investigation. the trump adviser told politico, i think the weisselberg involvement and the wild card of that makes the political situation more real. the fact that they are dealing with a numbers guy who just has

now than not trump. i don't think there is any doubt about that. i do point out that donald trump endorsed the widow of ron wyatt, who -- i'm looking forward to serving with her if she wins, nothing against her at all, he endorsed her five days before the election would have to votes were cast and she was ahead in the polls. that's not a courageous endorsement. anybody that knows trump knows he is scared to death to take endorsements because he is worried that if he loses something, people will see him for what he is. in terms of michael wood, i knew that would be a long shot. but my view with country first, with what i want to do and what i support is not to sit back and just find races that i know can win and support those people, because all that becomes is me doing things to promote myself. and maybe people are just so cynical on politics, but i'm truly not doing this to promote adam kinzinger. i dedicated my life to this country and this party, so for me it was important to show that if you are will

trump organization, including donald trump.ly the building blocks of this thing, people like trump ceo allen weisselberg's daughter-in-law, jennifer weisselberg. >> allen himself admitted to me that his taxes and pay stubs, he said, i'll never show this. it's supposed to be the guarantor on my apartment, my lease, when i was getting divorced, and he said, oh, no, i can't show my taxes, i can't show my pay stubs. i thought, why not? basically he was saying they're illegal and i'm not releasing them. it was during the cohen sdny investigation. pretty telling. >> this family is going to pretend that it all had to do with allen and that allen was in charge of everything, allen was responsible. and they're all going to flip against allen. >> i think if you take a look at the panel that's here in front of you, ari, you have what i would term to be the trifecta of trouble for trump. if you take a look, you have of course stephanie, who has the melania and the presidential inaugural committee. you have jennifer who deals directly with

eric trump was running that project for the trump organization.f another project and when they get close to something they work together. do we know directly if there's any evidence against the trump children, we do not. >> sam, you asked a really interesting question. the fact that he's under investigation compel mr. trump to get back into politics? well, as a sitting president you can't be charged federally. that's policy not law. but there's nothing that would preclude a state from charging a sitting president, at least by policy. now, a sitting president could raise all sorts of constitutional and legal objections to being prosecuted while in office. but that seems like a pretty flimsy read to run on. please vote for me so i don't get charged with a crime in new york state. >> jonathan o'connell, thank you so much for being with us. we really appreciate it. hey, chuck, can i just ask you a general question that we've been talking about here for the past month or so, over the past five years we have seen one leak from another from whether it's

he said trump was innocent. barr said he consulted with justice department lawyers about all that evidence that was laid out by mueller, and he concluded on the basis of that evidence that none of that was a crime, none of that was all that serious. there was nothing to prosecute. trump didn't need immunity, he was innocent. earlier this month, a federal judge in washington, d.c. issued a scathing ruling that basically said, yeah, that's not what happened. in a case about whether the justice department has to release to the public some of their internal documents about the decision whether to prosecute trump, the judge ruled that the way bill barr described that decision, his supposed exoneration of trump, is not actually what happened. she ordered the justice department to release their internal memo about the potential prosecution of trump for obstruction of justice. she gave the justice department until yesterday to release that document or appeal her ruling. late last night, after we were off the air, the ju

a trump follower. a trump loyalist. so, there is real division of course around the country within the gop, and you could find that same division right here and her house district. >> brian mann, great reporting. thank you so much for sharing that with us. i really appreciate it. >> thank you for having me on. here's part of the big lie, and involves a century memory holing of what happened, just four months ago. four months ago. january. six the deadly insurrection at the capitol -- and bipartisan vote of both houses. a big part of what we're seeing now developed, the current republican agenda is to just minimize the whole thing, make sure nobody talks about the stain in days. it's gotten so bad, this impulse, that metropolitan police officer metro -- was beaten and electrocuted by rioters. remember him? he was writing this open letter to congress saying, i struggle daily with emotional -- emotional - congressman die ago joins me now. >> do you get the sense that there is this concerted effort, to memory hold january 6

trump and the trump organization. beds, a podcast, and he joins me now by telephone. so, harry, break this down for us. allen weisselberg, that is the money man. what can he do in terms of making things very difficult for donald trump, personally, but also for the trump organization which is also now under criminal investigation? >> right, he is the money man but you can also think of him as the accountant. in other words all the funny business and buy all the count, trump paid off people with gratuities and were misreported, all of that goes through him. he would've signed paper after paper. this is maximum pressure on a 73 year man who is primarily liable to donald trump. but as you've mentioned to fred. the big point here is it all roads to the highest level of the trump organization. trump himself, but also the children. all of them lead through weisselberg. from there, they stand out and you can go in different directions. but you need to secure his cooperation in order to you dispense with any defense -- we had

managing the trump organization with donald trump's sons after trump became president. now cooperating with the investigation into weisselberg and the trump organization is on your screen there. allen weisselberg's former daughter-in-law, jennifer, who was married to weisselberg's son barry for 14 years. her lawyer says she has 25 years of financial records. investigators are scrutinizing several things, including tuition payments to jennifer's children to a $54,000 a year private school. jennifer weisselberg said she believe trump paid the tuition for one child, and allen weisselberg for the other. "outfront" now, jennifer weisselberg. i appreciate your time. thank you for talking with me. and i know we spoke earlier and you were telling me about these tuition payments. i wanted to start there. because i know you had told me trump was willing to pay tuition for this school, not others, just this school. and i know it's a crucial question of what records do you have of trump himself and allen weisselberg making those tuition payments for your kids? >> i have records of

donald trump lost that lawsuit against you because donald trump is not a billionaire.of the trump organization knows more about the trump businesses than you do. what is your reaction tonight to this announced publicly announced teamwork now in a criminal investigation of the trump businesses by the new york state attorney general and the manhattan district attorney? >> it's this dramatically ups the legal pressure on trump, on weisselberg and the entire trump organization, lawrence. up until now they've been their consequential of the twoas mo relative to laetitia james is investigation. she's a new york attorney general. because he had a criminal probe. and a criminal probe potentially carries a prison sentence. with it, a civil probe usually at its worst can result in a massive fine. the fact that she, the new york a. g. has decided to convert her case from a civil to criminal probe in a prosecution suggests that she has evidence of criminal intent. that is the standard and a case that the defendant knew that he or she was doing something wrong and had criminal inte

trump.es it normally take for a probe to go from being a civil case in the ag's office to being criminal? why would that change? >> so it's a simple matter of the evidence. the new york attorney general has broad jurisdiction to investigate civil matters, but she's very limited when it comings to criminal cases. we don't know exactly what the mechanism was to transform this into a criminal case, but, joy, to answer your question, it means in the course of looking at civil claims, she developed evidence that criminal conduct had occurred and so her case was converted over. >> paul, if the trump organization is notified of this, is that sort of a notice that you're going to be prosecuted? how terrifying would it be to get a letter like that or be notified in that way? >> it would be pretty scary. this sounds almost like a target letter that prosecutors send to inform the person being investigated that the government plans to press charges. a question is what changed to make this civil investig

and so trump shouldn't be prosecuted. remember barr said that they didn't rely on this prohibition on a president being prosecuted while he's sitting in office. he said, actually, we decided at the justice department, i decided in consultation with justice department attorneys that none of those things described constituted a crime, that's why trump won't be charged. that's the story they told the public. that apparently is not what happened. federal judge amy berman jackson ruling today that this supposed advice that william barr got from the justice department that supposedly led him to conclude that these weren't crimes and, therefore, trump shouldn't be criminally charged, she ruled today that that advice to william barr has to be released to the public. the justice department under william barr had withheld that. people filed requests for that, an oversight group called crew had filed a foia lawsuit, the justice demurred, said, no we're not going to release that document, that's real legal advice, and we don't releas

when he thought trump would hurt the party, he was against trump. since then he thinks trump can help the party and so whatever he does, he's defending it. after defending mike pence following the insurrection, graham is basically saying if the republican party becomes the party of hang mike pence, too bad, mike. good luck. the last thing from a practical standpoint about this continued embrace of donald trump is that it seems weird to look at someone who lost the popular vote in his first election in squeaked into office, lost control of the house and the senate, and lost the second election by 7 million votes and think that guy's the winner, gotta have him. but here's the thing. it is not totally off base. it is true. that trump has an appeal to certainly segments of the electorate. deregulation and capital gains tax cuts, and privatizing medicare, and wars overseas, does not. it's not like the alternative to trump, the liz cheney wing within the party has any real popularity. what do they got? they got nothing. so graham is right in a way about t

trump lost. it is something that is important for her to do and now that she is no longer in leadership she can do it. once she not only starts denying his argument but starts presenting the case for the truth, they will start to believe her and dislike him. host: put phone numbers on the bottom of the screen for henry olsen. we will take calls from democrats at (202) 748-8000. for republicans (202) 748-8001. for independents, (202) 748-8002 . what kind of future as -- one more question about liz cheney, what kind of it future does she have in the party? guest: she has to decide if you wants to be in -- she wants to be in communion with the republican party. she calls that memo neo-marxist when it simply calls for a tough line on china and appeals to the working class and a tough line on illegal immigration shows she is out of touch with the majority values of the republican party. she can have an important part in the voice of the minority, but not the majority. host: what do you think of the le

if you support donald trump that's what being a conservative means. trump's brand of extremism isn't his alone it can be seen in other members of the party like marjorie taylor green a representative from georgia elected in november green raise controversy for remarks she made before and during her campaign. there is an islamic invasion into our government offices right now ok and for supporting defunct conspiracy theories about school shootings and harassing a student who survived one you know everything and i know your stuff she was even a believer in q and on this we're talking about who is key someone to tell you what he says according to him many and our government are actively worshipping satan. or they call the law to look at this image it was because of rhetoric and statements like this the republican leaders were pressed to remove cream from committee assignments another test holding a member of their party accountable but they alternately chose not to sing her comments were in the past pushing democrats to make the move themselves. 50. worst

is lindsey graham right, that they need trump, that republicans need trump to be competitive? cornell? we've got it frozen there. jake, how much belief is there on capitol hill that they actually need donald trump to succeed in 2022? >> a huge amount. in the republican conference cheney is an outlier by a huge margin. i would say about 85% of the republican conference not only supports trump, but comes from districts where trump is, you know, in the 80% range. so massively popular figure still in the house republican conference, which is why we're seeing this fight. >> dani pletka, pretty much every republican who has voted against trump has been punished by the elected party leaders. there's a disconnect. the elected leaders seem to be almost uniformly pro trump. ironically, the polling we've had and other people have had and i think you've seen some of it, shows that trump's hold on the party actually is fading. this feels as if it's a -- it's a desperate save themselves in the short-term strategy here. is it not? >> look, without donald trump, the republican party doesn't h

and it will exist after trump. i had a very revealing thing in vegas. i was there and my wife and i were standing outside of a bar. somebody came up to me and recognized me. she said, i hope trump wins. i said, he obviously lost. she said, at least don jr. will. i said, he is not going to run in 2020. she said, why? how are we ever going to win again. trump is the reason that we lost . at the end of the day, i know that i can fight hard. we need to inspire them with optimism. that decision will be made. emily: you talked about the election. i want to talk about something that you were involved in. there was a special election held there. you backed the anti-trump candidate he wound up in ninth place in the election with 3% of the vote. a number of people i talked with interpreted that as republican voters are more aligned with trump than ever. is that your take away from this special election? rep. kinzinger: special is unique. certainly, republican voters are more aligned with trump than not trump. no doubt about

and the trump org. investigation is expansive, according to people particular with the probe, and public dis-clowe shurps in litigation. investigators are ute scrutinizing trump's real estate portfolio, that were manipulated in a way that defrauded banks, and if tax benefits were obtained illegally. i want to get to two people who spent a lot of time looking in trump's taxes. andrea bernstein and david cay johnston, co-founder of dcreport.org. andrea, let me start with you. you have spend a lot of time, years of your life now, sifting through this. a very complex business intentionally, and it's not public one. so there is only so much you can look at. what is your sense of how well known to anyone the inner workings of this business are? >> well, i suspect it's quite well known at this moment to the manhattan district attorney's office. they have gotten the tax records. they had them for months now. they had a team poring over them. they have experts, just recently, they have assistants from the new yo

that they are in as donald trump suggested a sort of a life and death situation. now when you play that politics you want a real risk of no longer manipulating the base no longer manipulating your supporters but actually being in a position where you can't turn it off. and the question is will the fire overtake the party will it overtake the country. covered 19 has compounded the homelessness crisis in l.a. and abandoned impoverished families are forcing radical change he decided to say hey we're going to stand out. as a human right by claiming property left vacant by the state the 1st thing i did was change the locks my duty is to find out are safe that means breaking the law then i want to do that for one shelter in place l.a.'s fight for housing on al-jazeera. the town the untold stories. we speak when of us to. be caught up alongside us. no matter where it takes us a pretty familiar feeling seared galileo. and palin and pasha which tell your stories we are your voice no news to al-jazeera. a relentless bombardment toggles of polls as families to flee their hom

trump is in the party. and i don't see a way for them to get out of it. >> right. >> all this stuff, four, five years saying just humor him on some of the things that looking back they probably shouldn't have humored him on. >> right. electorally he's not big. he's small. he got fewer votes than clinton. he got viewer votes than biden. he's electoralically small. before i choose you, gene, can we talk blog really quick? >> yes. >> can we party like it's 1999? trump's blog is not lighting up the internet social media data. trump's online footprint is dependent on returning to those platforms that shut him down for, among other things, misinformation, hate and according to twitter encouraging violence on january 6th. we only have about 30 seconds left. what does it mean that nobody wants to read his blog? >> a lot of it has to do with the fact that people in the media aren't following. i think now reporters are being more -- are being smarter about engaging in that kind of stuff and sharing in it, especially

trump. it is only fair that they get 24 hours to digest that and come back tonight with their expert views of where we stand tonight and the story has developed a little bit. we now have reporting indicating that it is more than a month since the trump's lawyers found out about this investigation. >> we have not confirmed that cfn has said that the new york attorney general's office held a piece of criminal information themselves even though some of it has been handed over to the manhattan da's office. it adds another layer of complexity in terms of these investigations but also a whole new pressure point in terms of who's worry about their future. >> mike cohen told reid that if donald trump gets cornered on this, he'll blame everyone else in the organization from now. weisselberg to his own children, michael cohen says donald trump will say oh, that's eric's job and i didn't know anything about that. >> seriously, the fact that one of the things we know they looked into is consulting payme

trump university. that resulted not only the trump university being shut down, it also resulted in trump having to pay $25 million. that same office brought a devastating civil case against trump's sham fraudulent authority. it resulted in the also being shut down and having to pay millions of dollars in penalty. that's the same office that's still pursuing a civil investigation of the trump organization of its business. even though it -- for criminal prosecution and seconded to its prosecutors from the attorney generals office one going over to the da 's office to collaborate with them and work on that criminal case. all of these things are questions of serious potential liability for the president. and then there's the question of what's happening as a federal level. the prospect of federal criminal charges against former president trump, and every time we report on this i feel a little cycle in my ear that tells me attorney general merrick garland has eaten another fistful of mint flavored tubs. i g

trump lost. trumpism did not. not as long as republicans are willing to buy in the big lie and issuing one statement after another since he was kicked off twitter in the wake of the insurrection. resorting to insulting congresswoman cheney and claiming she will never run in the wyoming election again, that after labeling the election he lost fraudulent and the big lie in all caps. of course, here we go again. that's really manasomething. the man who has shamelessly spreading the big lie. he lies so much. he lies on top of lies. that's all he's consistent with. trying to coop the phrase and labeling the election himself, the big lie. liz cheney is calling them out. the 2020 presidential election was not stolen, anyone who claims was is spreading the big lie and turning their back on the rule of law and poisoning or democratic system. that's why the congresswoman's leadership position is hanging on a thread tonight. including making a pilgrimage to mar-a-lago after the insurrection. mccarthy is seeking to remove che

donald trump is involved in the trump organization. it's not a big massive company like the health care company was. prosecutors do impanel grand juries not for fishing expeditions but because they have probable cause. how unlikely to convene this kind of a process for a former president of the united states. do you think the person who should be the most nervous is donald trump or is it one of these other people that paul mention? the son or allen weisselberg? >> i think it's the lower level people. this is six months period and it's a very important period. prosecution with the grand jury system in new york is very different than the federal system. if you put a witness in the grand jury in new york you immunize them. it makes it difficult. you have to work around the edges in a much smarter way. they don't have the same levers of power when using the grand jury system in new york. this isn't surprising at all. he's been doing this for two years. now he's got the tax returns. we have pretty open process about the pressure. this isn't

it is now donald trump's party. we have a -- we have all talked over this spring about the battle for the soul of the republican party and i think at this point, donald trump owns the soul of the republican pay. he owns it lock, stock, and barrel. liz chayi is standing up against that but she's in a very distinct minority. there may be people who agree with her but they're unwilling to speak out in the way she is. what you have is a very small minority, liz cheney on the one hand,enator romney on the other, among a handful of people who are prepared to make the argument that the party is in danger of ruining its future. if it continues to buy in to trump's lies about the election. but it appears as though she's on very thin ice in the house and as a result of that, what we have right now is a party that is donald trump's. errin: dan is so right. this is a lot less about liz chaney than about donald trump. that's why you're seeing the huge endorse oment of elise stefanik. in the impeachment trial she was one of the f

trump and the trump organization. harry litman is both a former u.s. attorney and former u.s.d creator of "talking feds," a podcast, and he joins me now by telephone. so, harry, break this down for us. allen weisselberg, that's the money man. what can he do in terms of making things very difficult for donald trump personally but also the trump organization, which is also now under criminal investigation? >> right. he's the money man, but you could also think of him as the accountant. in other words, all the funny business, and by all accounts, trump did this again and again and again, paid off people with sort of gratuities that were misreported. all of that goes through him. he would have signed paper after paper. so this is maximum pressure on a 73-year-old man who isn't primary liable to donald trump, but as you mentioned, to fred. and the big point here is all roads to the highest level of the trump organization, trump himself but also the children -- all of them lead through weisselberg. from there, they fan out, and you could go in different directions. but you need to s

trump. >> this is just the beginning. hi, and welcome to axios event. welcome to audience on facebook, twitter, linkedin and axios.com. over the next 30 minutes i'll be joined by my colleague, co-founder mike allen as we explore the facebook decision over president donald trump's suspension. joining us vice-president of the cato institute, welcome, john. >> thanks for having me, sara. critics are saying you kicked the can. what's the point of having a board if you're not going to have a clearcut call. >> the decision about donald trump and facebook. our role at facebook is to access and oversight. you look at the facebook content moderation, what it leaves up, what it takes down and decide whether it's been done in a fair and just way. and, in fact, in this case, we decided that in the original decision, facebook had decided to uphold the law, a rule, at the time and so that's a process. and since facebook itself is the both rule maker and enforcer, it's their job to enforce the rules and so

org, donald trump. that's a possibility i mentioned in our coverage. it is also possible that what we're looking at here that the person who became president was running a criminal conspiracy. not just that there was some, you know, margins, you know, edging, cheating on little things or what they knew as little or ndas but actually the theory of the case was this was like a mafia organization or something that basically made money illegally on a regular basis and just hadn't gotten caught yet and that person got promoted to be president. that's why this is a huge deal. so a lot to think about. we have our shortest break right now. it's 30 seconds. i encourage you to stay because i'm interested to know what we're going to hear from michael cohen himself when we're back in 30 seconds. cohen himself when we're back in 30 seconds because we're the engineers who built the most reliable network in america. thousands of smarter towers, with the 5g coverage you need. broader spectrum for faster 5g speeds. next

>> blind loyalty to trump, worshipping at the altar to trump. it's mind-boggling that republicans could be this way. this was a legitimate election. he tried to delegitimize the election. he was attacking american democracy itself. yet they're standing by him. that just astounds me. i know a lot of republicans feel like i do, that this was unconscionable conduct by donald trump. let's not apologize for it. let's say it for what it is and move on. he was trying to undermine our system of government. >> in other words, you know, an insurrection trying to call secretaries of state and demand they change can the results. that's not democracy. that's not the definition of democracy. how do you define what that is? what is it? >> it's being a bully, is what it is. >> do you believe that he is the head of the republican party today? >> well, yes is he. he's the nominee for president the current nominee for president, that makes him the head of the party in a sense. >> meaning you think he's the front-runner to run for president next time? >> absolutely

in the trump world. it's something we knew was coming and donald trump knew was coming. a trump ad advisor told politico there's definitely nerves in the air in new york city where prosecutors have obtained and are studying donald trump's tax returns for possible bank fraud, tax fraud, and the "washington post" reports the district attorney is examining the compensation provided to the top trump organizations people familiar with the matter. prosecutors hope added pressure on donald trump's long-time accountant, chief financial officer allen wisenberg whose own taxes are under criminal investigation will convince wisenberg to cooperate as he has done before in a trump investigation. advisor told politico, the weisselberg involve. ment -- involvement makes the situation more deal, the fact dealing with a numbers guy with more details makes people more nervous. one of the trump aids saying he's missing being president terribly. no kidding. he's missing the attention? he's missing air force one. not being president means donald trump is a loser. as peter marks said the lose

trump posted this.hese are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unshare money justly, viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been unfairly and badly treated for so long. your board decided to uphold the ban for six months while facebook clarifies its policy. why did you decide to enforce the ban or to continue the ban during that period rather than to lift it? >> well, chris, on january 6th president trump issued those statements as a mob was rampaging through the capitol, as members of congress were cowering in fear, as the rioters were threatening vice president pence's life and at that time he issued these statements which were just egging on -- with prefunctory asking for peace, but mostly egging them on to continue. this is a plain violation of facebook's rules against praising a dangerous individual and organizations at a time of violence. so mr. trump is subject to the same rules on facebook as everyone else and the oversight board held th

but he said that trump was not -- he was doing it for trump, and trump said, no, he's on his own. he's not with me. so you have so many contra dictions. he is unable to weave his way through because he's lied so much and so often that no one believes him. given where he is, nobody is going to jump in and sink into the abyss with him. that's where i think we are with rudy. >> well, like the prosecutor like you are at heart, you just pointed to several key holes in what he said, which go also to the line back to donald trump, which is interesting and potentially ominous. so we were going to get to this. >> sure. >> while rudy is out here saying, oh, he wants to feel like a prosecutor and play that role, behind the scenes we're seeing he's just actually acting on the new reality, laying off, as just mentioned by john, several staffers to cut costs. his allies protesting that trump has been stiffing him and saying he should be compensated instead of being ignored. what does donald trump have to say about this? well, as mentioned as well, his side is leaking, now has his hands tied say

he's very loyal to donald trump and the trump family. remember, he started working for donald trump's father before donald trump took over the company. he's been there for decades. so you would have to, i think, have very strong evidence and very significant jail time exposure for allen weisselberg in order to get him to cooperate. >> it's a very good point. daniel, thank you so much for breaking all of that down as we search for answers here. much more on this including a reaction from a trump biographer next. and they're finally deciding to condemn markry taylor greene's comments after she compared mask rules to the holocaust. we're going to show you the explicit response to the gop leader. >>> and why the biden administration shut down a secret covid origin investigation that began under president trump. ♪ you've got the looks ♪ ♪ let's make lots of money ♪ ♪ you've got the brawn ♪ ♪ i've got the brains... ♪ with allstate, drivers who switched saved over $700 click or call to switch there are never enough hours in the day. so we made

i supported donald trump. i still think they did dirty, jack dorsey need to remember that it was -- if it were not donald trump, he wouldn't have have the users he has. he made that service famous. he was the most famous twitter user in history. he took that service when it wasn't that popular and made it popular. and to take your number one twitter user and treat him the way they did is disgraceful. and dorsey ought to remember that. they should get on their knees and thank donald trump and ask his apology for how they mistreated him. it's bad enough that he was a good twitter user. he was the president of the united states. how you could do that to any former president or current president is just unspeakable. host: tony in louisiana. billy long, congressman from louisiana, on the oversight energy and commerce committee i should say, their hearing in late march, asked facebook's mark zuckerberg if he would stand by the decision of the oversight board on whether former president donald trump should be reinsta

and remember, the prosecutors hereto have trump's tax returns. trump lost a battle 9-0. very bad news for him. >> so neal, let me take a second whack at this. this is new york city and state. are there any limits on their scope or powers? can they prosecute for good reason anybody for anything at any time? >> they've got to be crimes, of course. but the new york attorney general, the state prosecutor is involved is very significant for two reasons. number one, before this, this was largely fought by the manhattan d.a., cy vance, who is retiring. second, more importantly, the new york prosecutors, the state prosecutors, have a suite of powers, which is just about the most extensive, anti-fraud criminal law of any state in the country. it gives them sweeping powers. so what this means in practical terms is that prosecutors are going to do everything they can with their new powers to flip various people in the trump organization. we've already had many reports that the cfo, allen wiseleberg, has been the subject of those flips. they've even gone after his family and kids, a

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you see people come off of super supportive of trump to kind of supportive of trump. all of that might look like i am grasping at straws, maybe i am. truthfully, i think as time goes by, america always just moves on. every former politician will tell you everyone moves on from them. i'm not convinced yet. the last thing i will say is this. we all need to be careful in media and politics to look and say there are 60% of republican voters who believe the election was stolen, and the temptation is how could they believe that? truthfully they believe that because nobody has told him otherwise. nobody that they trust has told him the truth, and when you do you get separated and mocked. i think we have to understand that when people start telling the truth and understanding the truth there might be a massive backlash. eugene: if you are one of those people, and i assume you are, who can't convince these folks. who can't look at them in the face and tell them the election was not stolen and they actually believe you. there was some polling that came out yesterday. for the me

they are choosing trump over the truth.oday, in a swift voice vote, they ousted liz cheney as house committee chair. >> we cannot both embrace the big lie and embrace the constitution. >> let's not forget that it was lies about the election that drove trump supporters to riot and attack police officers, and vandalize the u.s. capitol on january 6th while calling for mike pence to be killed. immediately after that attack, even republican leaders agreed that trump had incited the crowd. >> trump and i, wraefd a hell of a journey. i hate it. from my point of view, he'sen a consequential president. but today, all i can say is count me out, enough is enough. >> the president bear respond for wednesday atack. he should have denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. >> and there's no question that the president formed the mob, the president incited the mob. he's to blame. >> that attack was based on a big like that trump fed to his supporters and over and over again that the election was stolen from here. joe biden receive

>> inappropriately close with vanessa trump, donald trump's jr.'means there was a relationship. certainly this relationship, if it did exist, is unappropriate, and against secret service rules. secret service protectors are not supposed to get personal with their protectees as it may compromise their situation guarding them. 7 another nugget involves tiffany trump, the president's oldest adult child. it's said tiffany trump developed a close relationship with a-- quote-- tall, dark, and handsome secret service on her detail after breaking up with one of her boyfriends. this is another thing that came out in this "post" and the "guardian" story, a little teaser from carol's book that says trump did not like the appearance of some of his agents. he said, "i want these fat guys off my detail. how are they going to protect me and my family if they can't run down the street?" >> trevor: wait. hold up. do trump's secret service agents really need to be that fit? i mean, if we're honest, they only need to run fast enough to keep up with him. not to mentio